Second Language Acquisition

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This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics. It reviews the last thirty years of research in the field, focussing in particular on how the second or additional language is represented in the mind and how it is used in communication.

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Full title :Second Language Acquisition.

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Publication Date:2016.

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Publisher(s):OUP Oxford
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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9.1.1 Bilingual lexicon representation models.

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Description:1 online resource (506 pages)

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ISBN:9780191072192, 0191072192
oclc:ocn953922076
LC Classification:P118.2
Dewey Decimal:401.93

Cover; Second Language Acquisition; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; List of figures; Part I: Language; 1: Language architecture; 1.1 What is language? What is knowledge of language?; 1.2 The language architecture; 1.3 What exactly has to be acquired?; 1.4 The scientific method in SLA research; 1.5 Exercises; 2: Language variation; 2.1 How do languages differ?; 2.2 Principles and Parameters in history; 2.3 The Minimalist Program; 2.4 What is the learning task for bilinguals?; 2.5 Exercises; 3: The psychological reality of language in use.

3.1 What happens when we hear a sentence?3.2 Phonological perception and lexical recognition; 3.3 Morphology; 3.4 The syntactic parser; 3.5 Models of syntactic processing; 3.6 Working memory; 3.7 The psychological reality of language and the grammar; 3.8 Exercises; Part II: Language Acquisition; 4: The Critical Period Hypothesis; 4.1 The view from biology; 4.2 The two positions in second language acquisition; 4.3 Global nativelikeness versus different sensitive periods for the separate parts of the grammar; 4.4 The first and the second language as communicating vessels.

4.5 Effects of bilingualism: Is the bilingu…

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Andraspråksinlärning Fremdsprachenlernen Kognitive Linguistik Langage -- Acquisition Langue seconde -- Acquisition Langues -- Étude et enseignement Linguistik Second language acquisition Språkinlärning